I m speaking at LinuxFest Northwest! Sat Apr 25 at 11:25am, room CC 236. My talk will focus on tool calling and MCP, all done with local/offline software. The talk builds on previous, related talks I ve given. Slides, notes, and code
Here are talk take-home materials for Local Offline AI, my talk at SeaGL 2025. Slides, notes, and code Live chat (I won t follow and respond to this during the talk, someone in the room will need to raise their hand) Screencast with audio
Local Offline AILocal Storage for Data Sovereignty
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I am leading a Self-Hosting workshop at FOSSY 2024 this morning! It starts at 10:45am PDT. I hope you enjoy the workshop. Please buy my book, tell your friends about it, and give me a review. If you can think of a place I should be talking about the book, please suggest it and, if Continue reading "Self-Hosting Workshop"
I m writing a small book. ~160 pages at 6 x 9 . I want great-looking print editions so PDF output is critical. I started writing in Markdown, using a few scripts to pre-process for each output format (EPUB ebook, screen PDF, print PDF, HTML) and invoke Pandoc. It worked well at first, but after a year Continue reading "Pandoc vs. Asciidoctor for print"
I rolled my eyes far beyond acceptable limits when I first learned the meaning of the phrase green bubble shame. Still, I was curious, so I asked a handful of high school students about it. I rolled my eyes back into place (as they rolled theirs at my questions) and learned it is in fact Continue reading "Blue? Green? Signal."
Folks in the Seattle area Friday and Saturday this week (or wishing to join remotely online): there are at least 3 relevant self-hosting talks at the SeaGL conference. I m a SeaGL co-founder. SeaGL is free to attend. I m promoting my own book in my talk, and the book itself will be liberally licensed to encourage Continue reading "Self-Hosting talks in Seattle at SeaGL this weekend"
I created a website for my forthcoming book: Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud This book will free your data and empower your users. Send me a note at info@(that same domain name) if you want me to let you know when it is available.
I am honored to be giving a talk at FOSSY 2023. The title is Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud. Event details Description Your data are essential to your life, your agency, and your future. Come learn how to save, serve, and safely share your data at home with a smorgasbord of FOSS. I ll cover rapid Continue reading "FOSSY 2023"